155CART Cartography

Basic Information

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• Code: 155CART
• Lectures:

prof. Ing. Jiří Cajthaml, Ph.D.

Ing. Tomáš Janata, Ph.D.

Practical classes:

Mgr. Petra Justová. Ph.D.

• lectures per week: 2 hours

• exercises per week: 2 hours
• Credits: 6
• finished with: an exam
• summer semester

Annotation

Literature

1. Slocum, T. A., et al.: Thematic cartography and geovisualization. Prentice Hall, 2008.
2. Brewer, C.A.: Designing better maps. Esri Press, 2005.
3. Field, Kenneth: Cartography: A compendium of design thinking for mapmakers. Redlands, California: Esri Press, 2018.
4. Field, Kenneth: Thematic mapping: 101 inspiring ways to visualise empirical data. Redlands, California: Esri Press, 2022.

Lectures 2025

Tuesday 11 AM, B973

date	topic	lecturer	material
18.02.	Introduction to the course	TJ
25.02.	Mathematical cartography	JC
04.03.	Map language, content and composition	TJ	Slocum – TC&G, p. 90–132
11.03.	Methods of terrain visualisation	JC
18.03.	self-study
25.03.	Thematic maps I, colours and scales in maps	TJ
01.04.	Thematic maps II	TJ
08.04.	History of cartography and state map work	JC
15.04.	self-study
22.04.	Map production process, data sources, INSPIRE, copyright	TJ
06.05.	Colour spaces and reproduction	TJ
13.05.	self-study

Exercises 2025

Thursdays, Bs-111

Study Materials

date	topic	lecturer	assignment
20.02.	---no class---	PJ
27.02.	Map Projections in Detail	PJ	Assignment 00
06.03.	Spatial Data, Geocoding	PJ	Assignment 01
13.03.	Georeferencing	PJ
20.03.	Vectorization	PJ	Assignment 02
27.03.	Choropleth Maps 1	PJ
03.04.	Choropleth Maps 2	PJ	Assignment 03a
10.04.	Diagram Maps	PJ	Assignment 03b
17.04.	---National Holiday (no class)---
24.04.	Cartograms	PJ	Assignment 04
29.04.	Multivariate mapping	PJ	Assignment 05
15.05.	Grid Maps, Data Binning	PJ
19.05.	Webmapping	PJ